Preserve quote style while changing a YAML file
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Description
I have Rails I18n en.yml file which contains values with or without qoutes.
I want to change this file programmatically, but if I use Psych#load and Psych#dump approach it removes all the quotes from values. I don't want to change styling of existing values, how can I do that?
As I understand parsing the ast is the way, but I want to preserve simplicity of working with YAML as the hash and then simply dump it back as the original file but with a few new key/values.
Input:
en:
account:
invoices:
empty: 'It''s empty here'
tabs:
donations: Donations
giftcards: 'Gift Cards'
membership: Membership
purchases: Purchases
subscription: Subscription
title: 'Invoices History'
Expected result (all styling preserved, new key added):
en:
account:
invoices:
empty: 'It''s empty here'
tabs:
donations: Donations
giftcards: 'Gift Cards'
membership: Membership
purchases: Purchases
subscription: Subscription
my_new_key: New Value
title: 'Invoices History'
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the Psych#load and Psych#dump behavior described in the issue, then investigate the YAML AST path and how quote style is represented for en.yml values. Done means adding a key while preserving the existing quoting and other styling shown in the expected result.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby, yaml
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100